Re: Function auto-loading

Hi! > Having the use statement trigger the auto-loader would result in a lot > of broken code because of optional dependencies (remember the examples I > showed you in the annotation thread). I think it's not a good idea in general. use statement right now is basically a syntax sugar - you just change interpretation of names. But you don't cause anything to load by this statement. Changing it would mean people have to change a lot of assumptions about what is loaded when. E.g., there's a lot of code which use's classes and spaces that may not even exist - just because they *might* exist in some scenarios, and will be used in those scenarios, further down in the code. I don't think completely changing the semantics of a very widely used statement is anything we should be doing. > This would make it even more painful for users to define anything in the > global namespace; a good thing. No it's not. Why should it be a good thing? > It would however encourage people to prefix their stuff inline with a > backslash, otherwise you end up with an endless use chain for every I'm sorry but this is horrible. PHP code should not look like a fence of backslashes, backslashes do not have any useful function there and in 99.9999% of cases global functions *are* global functions, and nobody is overriding them. Yes, you can override strlen. No, nobody (within 0.00001% accuracy) does. > built-in feature which is not nice. That being said, it's required > anyways if we are really going to introduce namespaces for everything > within PHP (e.g. use function php\random_bytes;). Something I > still > think is a bad idea at least for procedural first-level functions. It's a bad idea for all existing functions and classes. Because it adds complications for people without giving them anything in exchange. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com